Meredith · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Meredith

How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.

Zero households without a car marks Meredith as an area far more reliant on private transport than the rest of the state. This absolute dependency on vehicles shapes how people move, with almost every home owning at least one car and very few residents using public transport to get to work.

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📍 Meredith, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every single home in Meredith has a motor vehicle, a figure well below the Victorian average of 7.6%. Most households are well equipped, with 45.2% owning two vehicles and another 28.4% having three or more.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 8.9%
  • 2016: 6.3%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Meredith, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 45%, followed by 1 vehicle (27%) and 3 vehicles (15%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way to get to work, as 65.9% of people are drivers and 0.0% use public transport. While 9.5% of the workforce now works from home, this is far below the 25.7% seen across Victoria.

9.5% ▲ +45.6%

Higher than 60% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 6.5%
  • 2016: 8.6%
  • 2021: 9.5%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

0.0% → —

Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of employed people who got to work by train, bus, ferry or tram/light rail as their only method of travel on census day.

How people get to work

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In Meredith, Car (driver) is the majority at 82%; Worked at home is next at 12%.

Sources

  • Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).

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Cite this page

Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Meredith [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL222052/meredith/topic/transport